Making Friends With My Body and God: A Guided Journal - Softcover

The God who made the sun and stars also crafted your body with love and care. Are you ready to discover that love in new ways? 

Making Friends With My Body and God is a guided journal for women who are looking for creative healing practices, burned out on "devotionals," or ready to put love into action—instead of just reading about nice ideas.

Through essays, illustrations, Scripture, and guided journaling, you're invited to take that action through prayer and practices for meeting God, right in the sacred space of your own body.  

Along the way, you'll learn how to:

• inhabit your body with more mindfulness and self-love

• claim your God-given power and goodness

• pray in new ways

• encounter God with all of yourself

• live with greater freedom and joy
  

With plenty of space for creativity, inspiring illustrations, and practices to infuse your everyday life with mindfulness and care, this is not just a "devotional"; it's a self-paced journey of discovery.

God didn't create us to be at war with ourselves, disconnected, burned out, or ashamed. In fact, loving others begins with loving ourselves—including the bodies God calls good.

What if you could reclaim the energy you spend resisting your own body? It's time to take the first step toward healing. It's time to make friends with your body and God.

Making Friends With My Body and God is designed for solo study, family conversation, or small group discussion. You'll consider questions like:
Are all bodies good bodies?
What if my body is uncooperative or in pain?
How does the way others treat my body impact me?
Why did God choose to have a body?
What are practical ways to overcome shame?
How does caring for my body with love help me connect with others?

The essays, journaling, and real-life practices and experiments all offer material for rich discussions and deeper relationships.

Lyndsey Medford is Director of Discipleship at Two Rivers United Methodist Church in Charleston, South Carolina. She is an indecorous Southerner, an erstwhile evangelical, and an inexpert advocate for justice. She also manages autoimmune disease and a tiny front-yard garden.
Lyndsey holds a Master's degree in Theology from Boston University, but she's most proud of her improv theater, food pantry, and gluten-free baking bona fides, her family, and her rescue dog Miya's dainty high-fives. She writes regularly on her email newsletter and at lyndseymedford.com.